--WILL MURDERERS ENTER HEAVEN?

~~"Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation" - -[Psalm 51:14]

~~Murder is sin! Murder is contrary to the will of God! The Lord commanded in Exodus 20:13, "Thou shalt not kill." In the New Testament Jesus said, "Thou shalt do no murder" (Matthew 19:18). God's plan is clear! Man is not to destroy the life of another. However, the first person born on earth became a murderer. After Cain killed Abel, God told him, "Thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground" (Genesis 4:10). The New Testament sets a high standard in 1 John 3:15: "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."

King David was a man whose heart was filled with the evil intent to destroy another man. There was no love for Uriah, but hatred. He succeeded in his plan, and Uriah was killed. David had become a murderer! In today's Bible reading, we find David suffocating in guilt because of his crime. He no longer had sweet fellowship with God, and he wanted that relationship to be restored. David did not want to be a murderer! Notice his feelings: =1) there was no joy, 2) there was no gladness, and 3) there was such a heavy sorrow that David felt as if his bones were broken.

"My sin is ever before me," David wrote in Psalm 51:3. Also note his desperate cry in today's key verse. Was there no release? Consider Nathan's response after David confessed his sin: "The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." Later David testified, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered" (Psalm 32:1). Will murderers enter Heaven? They can, but only if they repent, confess their sin, and find deliverance from hatred, in the LORD. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" [1 John 1:9]

--Beside Still Waters/ JK~
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